Gallery Talk: Fred Folsom: Women Smoking and Last Call

Sat Mar 08 2025 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm UTC-05:00

American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center | Washington

American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center
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Gallery Talk: Fred Folsom: Women Smoking and Last Call
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Curator and artist present on the exhibition "Fred Folsom: Women Smoking and Last Call"
About this Event

Curator & the artist, will discuss the exhibition "Fred Folsom: Women Smoking and Last Call", in a gallery talk scheduled for

Saturday, 2:00- 3:00pm


About the exhibition:


Fred Folsom, Artist
Jack Rasmussen, Curator

The paintings of nudes in Folsom’s body of work called Women Smoking are rendered in transparent layers, gently glazed in the style of the Dutch masters to fit seamlessly into their interiors. The paintings are somber, intimate, introspective Rorschach tests appropriate to their sad inspiration: “Cigarettes killed my mom at 58 and my sister Susan at 30.”

Folsom’s best-known works are from his LAST CALL series of large honky-tonk scenes in a local strip joint. Originally considering himself a Surrealist, in 1983 he chanced upon the Shepherd Park Go-Go Bar: “The situation inside that nightclub was way-weirder than any of my surreal artwork.” He photographed the interior and began a 7’x20’ triptych, LAST CALL at the Shepherd Park Go-Go Bar, which he describes as “…a 140 square foot prayer.”

This event will be held in-person at the museum.

Please direct any questions about this event to the museum's main contact for this event, Patricia E Poku-Speight at [email protected].

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American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, United States

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